AX4000 IPv6 Test Option - Spirent Communications

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2 IPv6 Test Option • Manually triggered burst of packets • Periodic packets • Periodic bursts of packets • Randomly spaced packets (geometric distribution) • Randomly spaced bursts of packets (geometric distribution) • Markov Modulated Poisson Process Packet Length Distribution (one per traffic source) • All IP datagram lengths limited to 40-byte minimum; 65,000-byte maximum • Fixed packet length • Random packet length (uniform distribution within maximum/minimum limit) • Quad-modal packet length (four Gaussian distributions superimposed, each with adjustable center length and standard deviation) Encapsulation Templates • Up to four levels of encapsulation • Encapsulation templates provided for: • Ethernet per RFC 894, RFC 948, and RFC 2464 • Frame Relay per RFC 2427 and 1973 • PPP per RFC 1662, RFC 2615, and RFC 2472 • AAL 5 per RFC 2684 (obsoletes RFC 1483), RFC 2364, RFC 2491, FRF.5, and FRF.8 • MPLS per RFC 3032 • VLAN per RFC 802.1p and 802.1Q • User-defined encapsulation QoS Performance Test Streams • Up to 4,090 test streams, with each test stream containing billions of flows • Transmission timestamp with 40 ns resolution • Sequence number • PRBS fill patterns can be 2A23 generator polynomial, fixed or incrementing • IP test block protection CRC • mAX Tag with unique stream ID consisting of chassis ID, port ID, and stream number Traffic Sequence Definition • Sequence builder for up to 500,000 packets • Easy encapsulation selection using predefined templates • Hardware function generators may be assigned to any field in encapsulation template Hardware Function Generators • Three function generators, 8-128 bits each, allow billions of flows for each of the 4,090 QoS test streams • Fixed • Incrementing by n steps • Random within range Traffic Prioritizer • 1, 2, 3, or 8 groups of rotating priority • Weighted random priority (each of 8 given as percentage) Traffic Shaping/Policing • GPRA (generic packet rate algorithm) • Peak datagram bit rate • Burst tolerance (bytes) Trigger Controls • Used for triggering IP packet and error injection • Manual triggers • Error injector Generator Statistics (real-time traffic source and aggregate statistics provided) • IP packet count • IP packet rate • IP packet byte count IP packet bit rate • IP datagram byte count • IP datagram bit rate • % maximum bandwidth • Short-term % maximum bandwidth Error Injection • Built-in random error generator • Random or manually triggered errors on enabled byte range • Allows errors in specific bits of each byte Protocol Emulation Support • ATM SVC signalling emulation • IP Ping, BGP-4, OSPF, IS-IS, RSVP-TE, LDP, CR-LDP, TCP Stack, ARP • PPP—LCP, IPCP, MPLS-CP, OSI-CP, IPv6-CP, PAP, CHAP • Frame Relay—LMI User Traffic Setup Support • BGP-4, OSPF, IS-IS • MPLS
3IPv6 Test Option PowerSync Analyzer3 mAX IP Analyzer Stream filters • Filter and identify IPv6 and IPv4 substreams • Separate incoming traffic stream into as many as 4,090 substreams • Automatically identify Layer 2, Layer 3, and Layer 4 encapsulations per template Provide automatic packet classification on any three specified Layer 2, 3, and 4 fields • Packet classification fields include • IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses • IP-TOS field • MAC addresses DLCIs VPI/VCIs MPLS label • VLAN tag • TCP/UDP source and destination ports • mAX tag—Automatic identification of QoS test streams by generator chassis number, port number, and stream number allows CoS support QoS Test Stream Measurements • Up to 4,090 streams measured simultaneously • Provides real-time traffic statistics, histograms, and charts Bandwidth Statistics • Total packets and packet rate • Total bytes and bit rate • Good packet count and rate • Good packet bytes and bit rate • Good datagram bytes and bit rate • Packet length—mean, min, and max • Latency statistics • Interarrival time—mean, min, max • Transit delay—mean, min, max • Sequence statistics • User-defined window size for declaring an out-ofsequence error • Lost packets • Misinserted packets • Out-of-sequence packets • Short term statistics • PRBS 2 A 23 bit error count and rate • Maximum transmission unit violations Histograms • 16 simultaneous histograms on any filtered flows • Interarrival time • Transit delay • IP datagram length Charting • Up to16 simultaneous charts on any filtered flows • Charts any four measurements vs. time per flow Traffic Conformance • GPRA (generic packet rate algorithm) • Peak datagram bit rate • Burst tolerance (bytes) Frame Capture • 64 MB RAM capture memory standard; expandable to 128 MB (256 MB for the 10 Gbps test module) • Real-time capture of any filtered flows including encapsulation • 40 ns capture timestamp resolution • Captures can be triggered based on header or payload contents, errors, manual or external triggers • Capture sample can start at beginning, middle, or end of trigger event • Captured packets can be filtered, reassembled, decoded, examined, and saved to a file Real-Time Decodes • ARP per RFC 826 • BGP-4 per RFC 1771 • CR-LDP per RFC 3036 • IPv4 per RFC 791 • IS-IS per ISO 10589, RFC 1195 • OSPF per RFC 2328 • RSVP per RFC 2750 Captured Protocol Decodes • ARP per RFC 826 • BGP-4 per RFC 1771 • BOOTP per RFC 951 • CR-LDP per RFC 3036 • DNS per RFC 1035 • DHCP per RFC 2131 • ES-IS per RFC 995 • FTP per RFC 959 • H.245 per H245_E_56344 • H.323 per H323_E_55637 • HTTP per RFC 2616 • ICMP per RFC 792, RFC 2463 • IGMP per RFC 2236 • IPv4 per RFC 791 • IPv6 per RFC 2460, RFC 2461, RFC 2373, RFC 2472, RFC 3056, draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-13.txt
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